Trevor Farrell wrote:
>
> Tom Berkley wrote:
>
> >
> > I see the lilo prompt twice when I want to boot to the second drive but
> > that is normal for any linux boot from a drive other than the first
> > drive.
> >
>
> I have now seen several posts like this saying that it is nornal for two LILO prompts
> if you are booting Linux off a second drive, and am very puzzled, as I have always
> booted Linux off my second drive and have never seen two LILO prompts.
>
> My home system has Windows 95 on hda and a vfat partion as hdb1, as well as Linux on
> hdb. I have installed Redhat 5.2, 6, 6.1; Mandrake 6, 7; as well as Caldera and Suse
> distributions on this machine. None have given me 2 LILO prompts.
>
> Why is it so???
I run Linux off a second drive. I don't have 2 lilo prompts..
HDA is 8 gig, 4 gig win98, 4 gig BeOS.
HDB is 7 gig, all linux.
Lilo is installed in the / of the 7 gig, not MBR.
Alan
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